🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Front Yard Boulder?

[airborne1092]

So, I was kicking boulders around my house, most are from the previous homeowners, and I kicked on that looked inreresting, about 12 feet outside my door. It appeared really intersting so I rolled it over, and it looked like opalized wood. Rather a tree stump, worked by either human or beaver.
Maybe I am just "seeing too much" into it...
What do you think?

 

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[dozer dan]

Where?

 

[GoldieLocks]

I suspect it is not natural but man made. Could you look into what you can find out about previous owners hobbies/jobs.

 

[blauer]

Pareidolia​

: the tendency to perceive a specific, often meaningful image in a random or ambiguous visual pattern

 

[airborne1092]

Where?

about a dozen miles south of Spokane, WA on the Palouse;

I thought about previous owners - a couple of horse nuts, and an ex-mil married to an Australian lady. I thought one possibility was, it was brought back from AUS in HHGs or something similar is possible.

Looking around more, I see there are six or seven boulders laying around that all look the same. It may have come from our property, but I am not too firm on that. Granted, I haven't seen anything like this around in the past 6 years, but I also have seen less than 0.01% of the dirt I'm living on top of!

 

[airborne1092]

Silver Hill Mine in Spokane County. My wife has found a great specimen of Chromite too, laying in the 'road.' This whole side of the mountain, maybe more, is one big Iron/Quartzite ridgeline, big feldspar boulders, and crumbly piles of calcite and graphite, influenced in one way or another by the Missoula Floods, 14,000 years ago.

 

[airborne1092]

Pareidolia​

: the tendency to perceive a specific, often meaningful image in a random or ambiguous visual pattern

The 'face' on Mars, or Jesus on a piece of toast - yea, I was keeping this in mind, too...